1. Where does Aunt Polly find Tom?
2. What has Tom been eating that he wasn't supposed to eat?
3. How is Aunt Polly related to Tom?
4. Who is Jim?
5. What does Tom do when he plays hooky?
6. What is Tom's recent accomplishment?
7. What task does Polly give Tom as punishment?
8. What is Ben Rogers doing when he comes across Tom?
9. What does Ben trade to Tom?
10. What person does Tom make up to threaten the stranger with?
11. When Tom beats up the strange boy, what does he tell the boy to holler to make him stop?
12. What does the stranger do through the window while Tom stands outside his house?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 3
1. What does Polly give Tom as reward for finishing his chore?
2. What does Tom throw at Sid as he leaves?
3. What role do Tom and Joe Harper take in the battle?
4. Who wins the battle?
5. Who is Amy Lawrence?
6. What does Tom do when he sees the new girl?
7. What does the new girl throw to Tom?
8. What does Sid do that Tom gets blamed for?
9. What does Tom steal as he goes out to play after whitewashing the fence?
10. What does Tom imagine after his aunt hits him and does not apologize?
11. Where has Tom's cousin Mary been for the last week?
12. Where does Tom go to be alone?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 4 and 5
1. What does Mary promise Tom for memorizing his Bible verses?
2. What is Tom's reaction to his bath?
3. Why are the Sunday School students given colored tickets?
4. How does Tom get his tickets?
5. What can the children get with their Sunday School tickets?
6. Who comes to visit the Sunday School class?
7. How many tickets are needed to earn a prize?
8. Who has earned the most rewards in Tom's Sunday School?
9. What does Tom answer when the judge asks him who the first two apostles were?
10. What does Tom try to do during the sermon?
11. What does Tom take out of his pocket during church?
12. What animal gets into a conflict with the bug Tom has brought into church?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 6
1. What is the only thing Tom finds wrong with him, when he wakes up Monday morning?
2. Where has Tom heard of the ailment he fakes
3. What is the potential consequence Tom heard that the illness could have
4. How does Tom wake Sid
5. Does Sid believe Tom is sick?
6. What does Tom say is wrong with him?
7. What is Aunt Polly's reaction to Tom's professed illness?
8. Who does Tom meet on his way to school?
9. What does Aunt Polly do about Tom's loose tooth?
10. What does Tom trade his tooth for?
11. Why does the teacher seat Tom with the girls?
12. What does Tom give to Becky?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 7 and 8
1. What do Tom and Joe use to play with the tick?
2. What serves as a field for their tick game?
3. What is the object of the game?
4. Who breaks the rules of the game?
5. Where does Becky meet Tom at lunchtime?
6. What does Tom ask Becky?
7. What does Tom do that makes Becky cry?
8. What does Tom offer Becky to console her?
9. What thought discourages Tom from committing suicide?
10. What does Tom decide to run away to become?
11. What game does Tom play with Joe Harper?
12. What does Tom "die" of during the game?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 9
1. What time is it, when Tom thinks it must be dawn while he is waiting to meet Huck?
2. What wakes Tom?
3. What noise does Tom make out the window, before climbing down?
4. How long does it take the boys to get to the cemetery?
5. What does Tom say the sound of the wind in the trees might be?
6. Where is the graveyard located?
7. Who do Tom and Huck think Muff Potter, Injun Joe, and Doctor Robinson are when they first approach?
8. What do the three men have with them?
9. What are the men at the graveyard for?
10. What do the men fight over?
11. What happens to the doctor?
12. What does Muff leave behind?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 10
1. What does Huck tell Tom is bound to happen if the doctor is dead?
2. Why doesn't Huck want to tell what the boys saw?
3. What does Tom write the pact between the boys on?
4. What do the boys use to prick their fingers?
5. How does Huck sign his name?
6. What does Tom say will happen if the boys break their pact?
7. What do Tom and Huck take as an omen that they will die?
8. Why do the boys realize they're mistaken about the omen?
9. Who do the boys find sleeping in their hideout?
10. What wakes Tom the next morning?
11. What does Aunt Polly do to Tom for going out at night?
12. How does Tom feel when he gets to school?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 11 1. How does news of the murder travel through the town? 2. What does the schoolmaster do after learning of the news? 3. What witness comes forward against Muff Potter? 4. Where does the town gather? 5. What does the sheriff say about catching Muff Potter? 6. Where is Potter caught? 7. What does Potter say when he's caught? 8. At first, what does Potter think gave him away? 9. What do the boys expect to happen when Injun Joe lies about the murder? 10. What does Tom do to stop himself from talking in his sleep? 11. What do Tom's classmates do, that constantly remind him of his problems? 12. What does Tom do to try to ease his conscience?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 12 and 13
1. Why does Becky miss school? 2. What tonic does Aunt Polly give Tom to bring him out of his depressed mood? 3. What does Tom do with the tonic? 4. Who does Tom give a dose of tonic to? 5. Why does Tom decide to run away? 6. What do Joe and Tom feel guilty about?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 14 and 15 1. What do the boys eat for breakfast after running away? 2. What happens to the boys' raft? 3. What kind of craft do the townspeople take onto the river to look for the boys? 4. What do the townspeople use to try to make the boys' bodies come to the surface? 5. Where does Tom sneak off to during the night on the island? 6. Does Tom leave Aunt Polly his note?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 16 and 17 1. What source of food do the boys find on the island? 2. What does Huck teach the other boys? 3. What do the boys play after the storm? 4. What does Becky wish she had? 5. What does the preacher do at the funeral service? 6. Where are the boys during their funeral?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 18
1. How did the boys get to shore from their island? 2. What does Polly say that Tom should have done? 3. What does Tom say that he dreamed? 4. How does Tom react to Becky when he goes back to school? 5. How does Becky make Tom jealous? 6. What does the boy Becky spent time with do to Tom when he finds out he's been used?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 19 and 20 1. How does Polly learn that Tom was lying about his dream? 2. What reason does Tom give for not letting Polly know he was alive? 3. What makes Aunt Polly able to forgive Tom anything? 4. What was the schoolmaster's unfulfilled goal? 5. What does Becky do that she thinks will get her in trouble? 6. How long does Tom have to stay after school?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 21 and 22 1. What speech does Tom make on examination day? 2. What is the title of the first-prize composition? 3. What color is the schoolmaster's bald head, when the pranksters cause a cat to snatch his wig away? 4. Why does Tom join the Cadets of Temperance? 5. How does Judge Frazer let Tom down? 6. What illness does Tom contract during vacation?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 23 and 24 1. What does Tom fear whenever someone gossips to him about the murder? 2. Before the trial, does any of the town gossip speculate that Muff Potter is innocent? 3. Why do Tom and Huck think it's useless to break Muff out of prison? 4. During the trial, what does the defense attorney ask the witness who saw Muff Potter washing at a creek? 5. What is Muff Potter's reaction when Tom is called as a witness? 6. What is Tom's attitude when he first takes the stand?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 25 1. Who is the first friend who agrees to go hunting for treasure with Tom? 2. Why does Tom say robbers fail to come get their treasures? 3. What does Huck say he'd do with treasure? 4. What is Huck's attitude toward marriage? 5. What does Tom say that robbers bury under a tree with their treasure? 6. What color lights are seen in the haunted house, reportedly?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 26 and 27 1. What day of the week is a bad day to visit a haunted house? 2. What do Tom and Huck do instead of going to the haunted house? 3. What is in the first closet Huck and Tom search in the haunted house? 4. What prevented Injun Joe from taking off on Friday? 5. Where does Joe tell his partner he plans on running after the "dangerous" job? 6. When Tom awakens the next morning, what does he think of his and Huck's adventure in the haunted house?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 28 and 29 1. What does Tom find in No. 2? 2. Why does Tom remember to grab the towel before running? 3. What does Tom say the Widow Douglas has for children? 4. What dampens Tom's expectations of a night at Widow Douglas'? 5. What is the cave opening shaped like? 6. What does Huck decide to do when the men come out of No. 2?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 30 1. What prevented Injun Joe's capture at the Widow Douglas' house? 2. Does Huck tell the Welshman the Spaniard's true identity? 3. What does the Welshman find where the two criminals were standing outside Widow Douglas' house? 4. When does Mrs. Thatcher find out that Becky's not where she's supposed to be? 5. By Monday morning, what do the men searching the cave send word to town for? 6. Who takes care of Huck when he's ill?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 31 1. Why does Tom not want to go back through the caves the way he and Becky came? 2. What disconcerts Becky when Tom shouts to the other picnickers? 3. Why does Tom blow out Becky's candle? 4. What food do Tom and Becky have left from the picnic? 5. Why does Tom say they need to stop and wait by the water? 6. What reason does Tom give Becky for his shout, when he sees Injun Joe?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 32 and 33 1. What does Tom see that shows him the way out of the cave? 2. How far away from the cave entrance are Becky and Tom when they emerge? 3. What happens to Injun Joe's accomplice? 4. What is found by Injun Joe's body? 5. What had Joe found in the cave to eat? 6. Where had Joe gotten water?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 34 and 35 1. Who tells Tom that the Welshman is going to announce Huck's role in saving the Widow Douglas? 2. What does Widow Douglas say she will do for Huck?
Problem-Solution Essay
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Short Answer Questions - Chapters 1 and 2
1. Where does Aunt Polly find Tom?
2. What has Tom been eating that he wasn't supposed to eat?
3. How is Aunt Polly related to Tom?
4. Who is Jim?
5. What does Tom do when he plays hooky?
6. What is Tom's recent accomplishment?
7. What task does Polly give Tom as punishment?
8. What is Ben Rogers doing when he comes across Tom?
9. What does Ben trade to Tom?
10. What person does Tom make up to threaten the stranger with?
11. When Tom beats up the strange boy, what does he tell the boy to holler to make him stop?
12. What does the stranger do through the window while Tom stands outside his house?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 3
1. What does Polly give Tom as reward for finishing his chore?
2. What does Tom throw at Sid as he leaves?
3. What role do Tom and Joe Harper take in the battle?
4. Who wins the battle?
5. Who is Amy Lawrence?
6. What does Tom do when he sees the new girl?
7. What does the new girl throw to Tom?
8. What does Sid do that Tom gets blamed for?
9. What does Tom steal as he goes out to play after whitewashing the fence?
10. What does Tom imagine after his aunt hits him and does not apologize?
11. Where has Tom's cousin Mary been for the last week?
12. Where does Tom go to be alone?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 4 and 5
1. What does Mary promise Tom for memorizing his Bible verses?
2. What is Tom's reaction to his bath?
3. Why are the Sunday School students given colored tickets?
4. How does Tom get his tickets?
5. What can the children get with their Sunday School tickets?
6. Who comes to visit the Sunday School class?
7. How many tickets are needed to earn a prize?
8. Who has earned the most rewards in Tom's Sunday School?
9. What does Tom answer when the judge asks him who the first two apostles were?
10. What does Tom try to do during the sermon?
11. What does Tom take out of his pocket during church?
12. What animal gets into a conflict with the bug Tom has brought into church?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 6
1. What is the only thing Tom finds wrong with him, when he wakes up Monday morning?
2. Where has Tom heard of the ailment he fakes
3. What is the potential consequence Tom heard that the illness could have
4. How does Tom wake Sid
5. Does Sid believe Tom is sick?
6. What does Tom say is wrong with him?
7. What is Aunt Polly's reaction to Tom's professed illness?
8. Who does Tom meet on his way to school?
9. What does Aunt Polly do about Tom's loose tooth?
10. What does Tom trade his tooth for?
11. Why does the teacher seat Tom with the girls?
12. What does Tom give to Becky?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 7 and 8
1. What do Tom and Joe use to play with the tick?
2. What serves as a field for their tick game?
3. What is the object of the game?
4. Who breaks the rules of the game?
5. Where does Becky meet Tom at lunchtime?
6. What does Tom ask Becky?
7. What does Tom do that makes Becky cry?
8. What does Tom offer Becky to console her?
9. What thought discourages Tom from committing suicide?
10. What does Tom decide to run away to become?
11. What game does Tom play with Joe Harper?
12. What does Tom "die" of during the game?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 9
1. What time is it, when Tom thinks it must be dawn while he is waiting to meet Huck?
2. What wakes Tom?
3. What noise does Tom make out the window, before climbing down?
4. How long does it take the boys to get to the cemetery?
5. What does Tom say the sound of the wind in the trees might be?
6. Where is the graveyard located?
7. Who do Tom and Huck think Muff Potter, Injun Joe, and Doctor Robinson are when they first approach?
8. What do the three men have with them?
9. What are the men at the graveyard for?
10. What do the men fight over?
11. What happens to the doctor?
12. What does Muff leave behind?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 10
1. What does Huck tell Tom is bound to happen if the doctor is dead?
2. Why doesn't Huck want to tell what the boys saw?
3. What does Tom write the pact between the boys on?
4. What do the boys use to prick their fingers?
5. How does Huck sign his name?
6. What does Tom say will happen if the boys break their pact?
7. What do Tom and Huck take as an omen that they will die?
8. Why do the boys realize they're mistaken about the omen?
9. Who do the boys find sleeping in their hideout?
10. What wakes Tom the next morning?
11. What does Aunt Polly do to Tom for going out at night?
12. How does Tom feel when he gets to school?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 11
1. How does news of the murder travel through the town?
2. What does the schoolmaster do after learning of the news?
3. What witness comes forward against Muff Potter?
4. Where does the town gather?
5. What does the sheriff say about catching Muff Potter?
6. Where is Potter caught?
7. What does Potter say when he's caught?
8. At first, what does Potter think gave him away?
9. What do the boys expect to happen when Injun Joe lies about the murder?
10. What does Tom do to stop himself from talking in his sleep?
11. What do Tom's classmates do, that constantly remind him of his problems?
12. What does Tom do to try to ease his conscience?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 12 and 13
1. Why does Becky miss school?
2. What tonic does Aunt Polly give Tom to bring him out of his depressed mood?
3. What does Tom do with the tonic?
4. Who does Tom give a dose of tonic to?
5. Why does Tom decide to run away?
6. What do Joe and Tom feel guilty about?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 14 and 15
1. What do the boys eat for breakfast after running away?
2. What happens to the boys' raft?
3. What kind of craft do the townspeople take onto the river to look for the boys?
4. What do the townspeople use to try to make the boys' bodies come to the surface?
5. Where does Tom sneak off to during the night on the island?
6. Does Tom leave Aunt Polly his note?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 16 and 17
1. What source of food do the boys find on the island?
2. What does Huck teach the other boys?
3. What do the boys play after the storm?
4. What does Becky wish she had?
5. What does the preacher do at the funeral service?
6. Where are the boys during their funeral?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 18
1. How did the boys get to shore from their island?
2. What does Polly say that Tom should have done?
3. What does Tom say that he dreamed?
4. How does Tom react to Becky when he goes back to school?
5. How does Becky make Tom jealous?
6. What does the boy Becky spent time with do to Tom when he finds out he's been used?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 19 and 20
1. How does Polly learn that Tom was lying about his dream?
2. What reason does Tom give for not letting Polly know he was alive?
3. What makes Aunt Polly able to forgive Tom anything?
4. What was the schoolmaster's unfulfilled goal?
5. What does Becky do that she thinks will get her in trouble?
6. How long does Tom have to stay after school?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 21 and 22
1. What speech does Tom make on examination day?
2. What is the title of the first-prize composition?
3. What color is the schoolmaster's bald head, when the pranksters cause a cat
to snatch his wig away?
4. Why does Tom join the Cadets of Temperance?
5. How does Judge Frazer let Tom down?
6. What illness does Tom contract during vacation?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 23 and 24
1. What does Tom fear whenever someone gossips to him about the murder?
2. Before the trial, does any of the town gossip speculate that Muff Potter is innocent?
3. Why do Tom and Huck think it's useless to break Muff out of prison?
4. During the trial, what does the defense attorney ask the witness who saw Muff Potter washing at a creek?
5. What is Muff Potter's reaction when Tom is called as a witness?
6. What is Tom's attitude when he first takes the stand?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 25
1. Who is the first friend who agrees to go hunting for treasure with Tom?
2. Why does Tom say robbers fail to come get their treasures?
3. What does Huck say he'd do with treasure?
4. What is Huck's attitude toward marriage?
5. What does Tom say that robbers bury under a tree with their treasure?
6. What color lights are seen in the haunted house, reportedly?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 26 and 27
1. What day of the week is a bad day to visit a haunted house?
2. What do Tom and Huck do instead of going to the haunted house?
3. What is in the first closet Huck and Tom search in the haunted house?
4. What prevented Injun Joe from taking off on Friday?
5. Where does Joe tell his partner he plans on running after the "dangerous" job?
6. When Tom awakens the next morning, what does he think of his and Huck's adventure in the haunted house?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 28 and 29
1. What does Tom find in No. 2?
2. Why does Tom remember to grab the towel before running?
3. What does Tom say the Widow Douglas has for children?
4. What dampens Tom's expectations of a night at Widow Douglas'?
5. What is the cave opening shaped like?
6. What does Huck decide to do when the men come out of No. 2?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 30
1. What prevented Injun Joe's capture at the Widow Douglas' house?
2. Does Huck tell the Welshman the Spaniard's true identity?
3. What does the Welshman find where the two criminals were standing outside Widow Douglas' house?
4. When does Mrs. Thatcher find out that Becky's not where she's supposed to be?
5. By Monday morning, what do the men searching the cave send word to town for?
6. Who takes care of Huck when he's ill?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 31
1. Why does Tom not want to go back through the caves the way he and Becky came?
2. What disconcerts Becky when Tom shouts to the other picnickers?
3. Why does Tom blow out Becky's candle?
4. What food do Tom and Becky have left from the picnic?
5. Why does Tom say they need to stop and wait by the water?
6. What reason does Tom give Becky for his shout, when he sees Injun Joe?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 32 and 33
1. What does Tom see that shows him the way out of the cave?
2. How far away from the cave entrance are Becky and Tom when they emerge?
3. What happens to Injun Joe's accomplice?
4. What is found by Injun Joe's body?
5. What had Joe found in the cave to eat?
6. Where had Joe gotten water?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 34 and 35
1. Who tells Tom that the Welshman is going to announce Huck's role in saving the Widow Douglas?
2. What does Widow Douglas say she will do for Huck?